AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Experts suggest learning CPR as life-saving practical skill.

The U.S. doesn't guarantee paid sick leave, and health experts say that impacts a whole community's ability to stay healthy.

Smug Jon Stewart is latest reminder of how advocacy groups like the AMA should have been challenged about masking kids and should get transgender questions.

Thirteen state attorneys general sent a letter to Biden administration AG Merrick Garland warning him against investigating and prosecuting critics of child gender transition surgeries.

Sen. Ted Cruz asked the Justice Department about the American Medical Association's request to investigate "disinformation campaigns" against gender-altering surgeries.

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

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A long-standing battle highlights a profession’s political transformation.

Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky faced tough questions on several issues, including confusing new guidelines and the rapid rise of hospitalizations in children.

"The more workers who get vaccinated, the closer we are to slowing the spread of the virus and creating a safer environment," the doctors told the court.

Ending health disparities is too important a goal to cede to propagandists.

Vanishingly few people have legitimate reasons to avoid COVID-19 vaccination. Some say their doctors told them not to get vaccinated anyway.

Because birth certificates have been used to discriminate against marginalized communities, the association recommended removing sex markers.

The nation's largest doctors' group is holding its annual policymaking meeting amid backlash over its sweeping plan to eliminate structural racism and bias in health care.

Deputies are searching for two female suspects who they said fled the scene after the shooting.

The twins were indeed special — they won free rides to the Ivy League, earned medical degrees at prestigious universities, and have thrived in a profession where they are vastly outnumbered by virtue of their skin color. At 33, James and her twin, Dr. Brandi Jackson, have taken on the medical establishment in pioneering work to eliminate racism in medicine. James, an internal medicine doctor, and Jackson, a psychiatrist, have developed anti-racist coursework used in two Chicago medical schools.

The nation’s largest doctors group has released a comprehensive anti-racism plan.

OLIVE BRANCH, MISSISSIPPI - DECEMBER 20: Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center on December 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Mississippi. CDC has accepted the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ recommendation for use of the second authorized #COVID19 vaccine. Current recommendations: https://t.co/cYJxH31I3F pic.twitter.com/qOQwyASpSG — CDC (@CDCgov) December 20, 2020The CDC accepted the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’(ACIP) recommendation for use of the Moderna vaccine on Sunday, Dec. 20. President, American Medical AssociationThe Moderna vaccine began shipping out Sunday, just days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized it for emergency use. Both the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer shot require individuals receive two doses several weeks apart.

Cases per day are on the rise in 49 states, and deaths per day are climbing in 39. A month ago, the U.S. was seeing about 730 COVID-19 deaths per day on average; that has now surpassed 970. He said this summer’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota was “absolutely unnecessary” and helped spread the virus beyond that state. — North Carolina reported its highest single-day increase in coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, with 3,119 people — 8% of those tested — testing positive for the virus. — Kentucky posted a record daily high for new confirmed cases, at 2,700, as the governor implored people to wear masks to counter the accelerating outbreak.

WASHINGTON – The nation's largest doctors' group on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strike down a Trump administration rule that's had a far-reaching impact on family planning by prohibiting taxpayer-funded clinics from referring women for abortions. But the changes to Title X, as the federal family planning program is known, are already in effect — and getting much less attention. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden promises to rescind the Trump administration's family planning rule and also supports allowing federal programs to pay for abortions. But the AMA says regardless of who wins the election, it believes the Supreme Court should address the issue and overturn the Trump administration rule. “We can't afford to walk away from that progress.”Joining the AMA's petition are the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, and Essential Access Health, which administers the Title X family planning program in California.

From 1988 to 2008, Potter was head of corporate communications (PR) for Humana and CIGNA, two of the largest private health insurers. In his book, he exposes how far the health insurance industry has gone to stop universal healthcare in the U.S. By 1950, large companies like General Motors began paying private insurance companies for employee healthcare coverage. But, in 1994 many BC/BS companies decided to become for-profit companies and were purchased by companies like Anthem and Wellcare. The difference was the health insurers administrative cost.

"It's simple, we must keep nicotine products out of the hands of young people." Officials believe a thickening agent used in black market THC vaping products may be a culprit. The AMA policy calls for a ban of vaping products not approved to help people quit. The FDA has been widely criticized for repeatedly pushing back its own deadline to begin reviewing thousands of vaping products on the market, at one point until 2022. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday called for a total ban on all e-cigarette and vaping products that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as smoking cessation tools. FILE PHOTO: A man uses a vaping product in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File PhotoThe AMA is urging regulators and legislators at the state and local levels to ban the sale and distribution of all e-cigarette and vaping products, and stipulates that those products should only be available by prescription. Some 2,000 people have been sickened and at least 42 have died from vaping-related lung injuries, according to U.S. health officials. Separately, a federal proposal to ban flavored e-cigarettes has been stalled for more than two months.

It's part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to remake government policy on reproductive health. Planned Parenthood clinics have long been a target for religious and social conservatives closely allied with the administration because the clinics separately provide abortions. Planned Parenthood of Illinois said it would accept program funds again if the rule were lifted. Ayers said Tuesday that Planned Parenthood clinics will stop accepting federal money and tap emergency funding as they press Congress and the courts to reverse the administration's ban. The family planning rule is being challenged around the country in court cases that have yet to resolve the core issues involved.